Oh yeah, Jumpgate was a great one. Well, manually piloting in zero-Gs physics was great, at least. Sad it didn’t make it.
Had been playing a mostly text-based MMO called Hundred Years War for several years. (It was actually a simulation of the real Hundred Years War between the aristocrats of England and France). That game was all about team-building and effective communication between team members. The side that did that best would win the war. Also, the game involved lots of head games, diplomacy, treachery, dissembling, and finessing trickery. Anyway, player population decreased, it just couldn’t keep up with more modern graphics-based MMOs.
So I searched long and hard for an MMO that had a similar aspect of team building, intergroup competition, and diplomacy and intrigue. Eve was the only one I found. The spaceships theme was just secondary to me-- it was the social sandbox that drew me in.
I was watching porn and saw an Eve Online add on a porn site. No joke ! I of course did not click it, but googled it, and saw this game existed (late 2003).
With other words:
2 girls doing it in a Jacuzzi brought me to Eve Online.
10th anniversary for me. And I still play like an idiot. No idea how I found the game. But it clicked and I’ve been pissed off, pissed on and generally PO on and off ever since, Subb’d, unsubb’d too many time to mention. Even gave a bunch of ISK away once when I left, only to have weird vivid dreams of being podded and floating naked in space. I really did.
The game is infuriating. Over-complicated, boring, thrilling and absurd all within a 5-minute period. WOW never held my attention. Anything else I’ve tried is kiddie toys in comparison. I could sit in station and spin ships for hours. Watching stuff come and go in Jita is a hoot. So was getting killed in a PVP and having the guy that took me out send me the ISK to replace my ship along.
I’m almost 60 years old. I can’t be expected to remember much. But the icing on the cake would be going to Fanfest as an old geezer and weirding out the troops trying to get ready for a pub crawl.
Clicked an ad because of spaceships. Found the most challenging pile of bits and giggles I’ve ever seen. Four years later and the challenges keep me coming back.
Long ago I used to play an old game called “paranoia”. Many moons later I reconnected with a friend I used to play that with. He had been playing EvE for several years at that point and told me he thought I might like it. So I tried EvE for only one hour. My friend tried to tell me to keep in EvE but I didn’t listen, unfortunately, and wandered off. Three years later I was convinced to try EvE again and have been here since. Recently I found the login for the EvE character I made first. Nostalgia.
Back in the days of yore ('80s), I played an awesome space simulator where one could mine, pirate, trade, upgrading their snake-names ship, called Elite. After achieving the the rating of Elite, the game became stagnant. There was no content but grinding away at the same stuff over and over. No other real world players could join. I thought to myself, wouldn’t this be a great MMOG?
I’d heard of rumors a space-based MMOG had been launch which was inspired by Elite, called EVE. One day I happened by a game resaler that had a boxed edition in the shelf … the rest is history. I was hooked.
That’s a funny coincidence OP because I used to work for Ubi Soft on Shadowbane back in 2003 when I got interested in Eve. I’ve always been in love with any sci-fi games and even more so with games that take place in space with huge space ships. I remember (not on this account) my first day in beta, not knowing what the hell I should do or even how to control my ship. Everything was so daunting.
I knew and read abou Eve since mid 2000’s. However I was not attracted to the space theme and considered myself more of a fantasy person. Also I was afraid of this pvp and full loot kind of thing.
Then I was reading Syncaines blog and started playing Darkfall because of it. It was a mixed experience but did cure my aversion to pvp an full loot so I tried this.
my nerdy, nerdy, nerdy irl friends who would bring their laptops to Vegas over New Years break just to log in to either play or make sure nothing went wrong.
